[FM Discuss] Future of Booki

[James Simmons]

As you know, I am writing a FLOSS Manual on e-books: finding them,
reading them, creating them, and publishing them, where publishing
includes options like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and
hosting the files yourself, possibly with a Book Server-like setup.
(Some people in Sugar Labs are working on that).

It seems to me that Booki fits in there somewhere.  I have seen a
couple of things that make me think so:

1).  I read on the Internet Archive website that there was a
demonstration of Booki where someone downloaded an EPUB from the
archive, made corrections to it, and then uploaded it back to the
archive.

2).  I read on this very list that there would someday be a general
Booki site where people could sign up and create any kind of book they
wanted to, not just manuals for free software.

As a result of this, I'm thinking that there needs to be a chapter on
Booki in my manual.  It would not be how to use Booki, but more what
it can be used for.

It looks like we're all going to be learning more about Booki very
soon, and I hope that among the things we learn will be some
indication of where the project is going and roughly when.

Thanks,

James Simmons